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Drug abuse by young people is a growing problem in Yemen. With a US$100,000 grant from the Emergency Response Fund (ERF), a Danish Refugee Council (DRC) project is reducing the incidence of drug use among young people in the southern Yemeni governorate of Aden.
Twenty-year-old Ali enrolled in the Faculty...

Toby Lanzer is the United Nations’ top humanitarian official in South Sudan. Since conflict broke out in December 2013 he has travelled across the country to meet people struck by violence and coordinate the response to their needs. Here he shares some impressions from these travels.
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With the conflict in South Sudan in its fourth month, and with a million people having fled their homes across the country, aid groups are now warning of the possibility of a serious food crisis by year’s end.
The UN estimates that more than 815,000 people are displaced right now, with a further...

Aid groups in Vanuatu are working alongside the Government to support the thousands of people affected by Tropical Cyclone Lusi that swept across five island provinces in mid-March.
Lusi swept through the northern and central provinces of Vanuatu as a Category 2 system between 9 and 12 March 2014. The...

Seven UN humanitarian agencies and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have welcomed funding from the Government of Kuwait to support their response to the Syria crisis. But aid groups still need almost US$5.3 billion to support people affected by the crisis in 2014.
At ceremonies in...